Jenny Humphrey

Richard Milhous Nixon was the 37th President of the United States of America, he served from January 20,1969 to August 9, 1974 (Funk & Wagnalls). Nixon is widely regarded as one of the most controversial presidents in all of history, he is the only president in history to resign the office of the presidency (Barone). Amid the controversy the Nixon administration is notable for creating change in American political, military, and diplomatic history (Funk & Wagnalls). Nixon is almost universally…

Civil rights amendments, three amendments that gave African Americans to do everything that the white people could do. Even though slavery was abolished and there were equal rights for voting and protection, after these amendments were passed all hell broke loose. In 1954 Brown vs Board of Education was a big court case about segregation. Right after Brown won the court case America was in a hell hole. Then in 1963 two speeches that were about segregation will never be forgotten. Staring with…

Dance may be perceived by some as merely choreography overlaid with music that governs the tempo and overall feel of the piece, however the art of dance is rooted in deeper facets such as culture, ritual, spirituality, and tradition. The culture and traditions that lead to certain dance styles and moves can be traced back somewhat to the economic and political status of the time period and location of the dance. For example, in Mary Wigman’s Hexantanz, or “Witch Dance” (1914), it’s not hard to…

introduction of the Capability Maturity Model (CMM) in 1987, which focused on the management system and the support and assistance provided to the development engineers. The next step in improving software quality was the Personal Software Process (PSP) by Humphrey. PSP improves the software quality by providing the engineers with a framework with which to do quality work. The concept of PSP was formed because, unless every individual member of the team could not contribute a quality piece of…

Robert Hass’s poem “Paschal Lamb” explores the value of sacrifice on an individual scale. The poem examines narratives surrounding the war in Vietnam, most of which center around the speaker’s story about David. Using the Viet Nam War, the metaphor of the sacrificial lamb, and the story of a woman in Greece, Hass looks at how intellect mutes or distances a person from the meaning of sacrifice and how it leads to feelings of power and comfort. Faced with a palpable or immediate sacrifice, in…

The hard-boiled detective, in noir tradition, is typically depicted as a lone wolf figure, one that upholds morality while balancing the corruption inherent in his line of work. He could be defined by his sexual potency, just as much as by his denial of pleasure. Raymond Chandler, in his 1950 essay, The Simple Art of Murder, outlines this archetype, with an authority appropriate to his foundational authorship. Chandler writes, “He talks as the man of his age talks, that is, with rude wit, a…

1. Hofstadter 18-21 Richard Hakluyt “Discourse of the Western Planting” The passage depicts the arguments that Richard Hakluyt makes to convince the Queen of England to support Sir Walter Raleigh's and Sir Humphrey Gilbert’s colonization efforts. Through the passage, Hakluyt brings up the religion, economy, and power. He stresses that the colonies can be used as tools to convert Indians to Christianity, which has now been reformed due to the Protestant Reformation. Hakluyt also states that…

1878 saw American dance pioneer Isadora Duncan rebelling against the normality of traditional ballet technique in order to create her own revolutionary style of dance technique and performance. Jean Morrison Brown, a previous professor of dance at the University of New Hampshire stated about Duncan: “A feminist in the most contemporary sense of the word and a radical whose rebellion, particularly against ballet, was complete and far-reaching …” (Brown, 1998, pg. 7) She believed that dance…

Dance has long been a medium that represents American culture that is constantly evolving and Martha Graham and Frank Gatson Jr. are two of many choreographers that helped developing modern dancing in America. After watching a lot of videos on how different type of dances emerged in America, I found Martha Graham’s work appealed to me the most because of her expressiveness and intensity in movements. Brought up by a father who was a psychiatrist, her first lesson of dancing was, “Movement never…

Casablanca is an American Romantic film that was produced in 1942 whose setting is during the Second World War. The film centers on an American soldier who is at crossroads of choosing between the love he has for a lady and assisting the husband to the lady who is a leader of the Czech Resistance to escape from Casablanca, a city in Morocco controlled by the Vichy in order for him to persist in fighting the Nazis. The film begins with the image of a globe that is spinning and the French…